I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.
Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.
I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art.
It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one’s hearing to it. .... The silence seemed to be trying to tell him something about itself.
Question for your life: If the man of your dreams existed in two dimensions only, would you try to print duplicates of him?
I keep people alive every day, and right now, the person I’m trying to keep alive is you. Will you let me?
When you have the same dream over and over again, your brain is trying to solve a problem. It knows there's an answer.
However, I have an enormous desire to change his way of life and try to re-educate him with the ingredient called ardent affection.~Emily
I can smell blood, Elena,” Dmitri drawled, walking back into the room. “Are you trying to flirt?
That's like leaping off a precipice and trying to knit yourself a parachute on the way down.
Love is the biggest mystery of the universe. But why try to solve it, when one simply view it for what it is and marvel at the wonders and strangeness it brings?
Life can be messy. No doubt, a lot of these kids are living proof. But in spite of their anxieties and their angers, At least- They Are trying to live.
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.
Books of value are just like people of value-they try only to elevate others, to help them to rise and to grow.
Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.
I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. Th...
You are trying to lure us into revealing information you're not entitled to? With chocolate and wine? Are you amateurs?
The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward.
When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.
